Comments on: I Quit My Job

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:26:42 +0000

Glad to hear you quit! I just left my IT job a week ago to pursue blogging full time as well. I’m convinced it will work out for the best.

By: HUZZAH FOR THE GOOD LIFE !!!! :: kill.thatdamnpatient.com

HUZZAH FOR THE GOOD LIFE !!!! :: kill.thatdamnpatient.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:58:29 +0000

[...] as of the 1st of July 2008 Dr. Kim has hung up his stethoscope and has devoted himself full time to macrumors.com, his family [...]

By: Heads-Up: App Shopper by Arnold Kim | RazorianFly :]

Heads-Up: App Shopper by Arnold Kim | RazorianFly :] — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:04:34 +0000

[...] rumor-based site relating to all things Apple. To our surprise, Kim recently announced he quit his job as a physician, and he now run’s Mac Rumors full time, and is said to be focusing on other [...]

By: Gigi Hopkins

Gigi Hopkins — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:41:09 +0000

Dr. Kim,

Over the years I have visited the MacRumors site because of the gadget geeks in my home, ok myself included. The thing I didn’t know is that Arn was the same person as the Arnold I was working with in the medical field. (lol)

I love blogging, but wow I must say you have taking your hobby to another level. KUDOS!!!!!!

By: Lifedrivedoc

Lifedrivedoc — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:24:01 +0000

Wow, How lucky you are. I’m sitting here closing charts at 8 pm.

I have a blog too, but it’s nothing like this. Well done and I do so envy you but wish you all the best.

Just a quick request, if I have a patient with hematuria or 3+ proteinuria can I still bum a corridor diagnostic workup from you?

:):):).

Good Luck and Do No Harm.

LDD.

By: Quitting The Day Job

Quitting The Day Job — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:27:05 +0000

Must be nice!

I will be hopefully be there one day. Again, Congrats!

By: New Domain & Hosting « John. A Developer.

New Domain & Hosting « John. A Developer. — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:34:02 +0000

[...] community, always providing reliable news and rumors and a thriving forum. The owner and creator, Arnold Kim, was recently featured in the New York Times because he decided to quit his job as a medical doctor [...]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:30:46 +0000

Good luck!
I like the macrumors as I like the Apple.
I may create one website to absorb people all over the world.

By: Arnold Kim

Arnold Kim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:07:52 +0000

@Richard

I appreciate the candor. If I was in it for the money, I would still be doing both. In the end, there’s only so much time in the day, and the critical choice was between spending more time or less time with my family. I didn’t want to look back in 20 years and regret that.

Good luck in your training, but I would think in 10 years, you would make the same decision. Feel free to email me arn@normalkid.com if you’d like to discuss it further.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:46:01 +0000

As a second year medical student I am surprised, awed, and concerned for you all at the same time.

Sadly though the biggest thing I got out of the story was that you didn’t go into medicine for the career, you did it for the money.

I know it sounds blunt but when you consider the hours, money and effort that was put into achieving your MD degree, to just give up on being a physician for another job tells me that money was your main motivator

cheers !